US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller has said Bangladesh-US relations will only get stronger under the Biden administration.

Noting that the government will develop infrastructures needed for filmmaking up to upazila-level, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged filmmakers to produce high-quality films -- upholding the glorious history and spirit of the Liberation War -- for future generations in order to counter distorted history.

In his last week in office, US President Donald Trump signed into law an act that would award at least 50 per cent of scholarships under a merit-based higher education scholarship programme to Pakistani women.

A tribunal in Sylhet today framed charges against all eight accused of a case filed over the gang-rape of a woman at Murari Chand (MC) College hostel in Sylhet on September 25 last year.

The coronavirus was found on ice cream produced in eastern China, prompting a recall of cartons from the same batch, according to the government.

A teenager was killed and two others were injured in a clash between two groups in Dhaka’s Keraniganj area following a brawl over playing badminton last night.

At least 16 houses have been gutted in a fire in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

A Dhaka court today sentenced three people to death for killing Shamsun Nahar and her 17-year-old son Sajjadul Karim Shaon in Dhaka's Kakrail area in 2017.

A man was killed after being hit by a pick-up van in Dhaka’s Shahjadpur area this morning.

Guatemalan authorities on Saturday escalated efforts to stop thousands of Hondurans, many of them families with children, traveling in a migrant caravan bound for the United States just as a new administration is about to enter the White House.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island has jumped to 56, authorities said Sunday, with thousands left homeless as rescuers raced to find anyone still alive under mountains of rubble.

Joe Biden's top aide said Saturday the incoming president would sign about a dozen executive orders on his first day in office, as police fearing violence from Trump supporters staged a nationwide security operation ahead of the inauguration.

Facebook Inc said on Saturday it will ban advertisements for weapon accessories and protective equipment in the United States with immediate effect until at least two days after US President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20.

A team of climbers from Nepal on Saturday become the first mountaineers to successfully complete a winter attempt on the summit of K2, the world’s second tallest peak.

Thousands of people marched through Vienna yesterday to protest against restrictions on public life designed to curb the coronavirus pandemic, just as Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s government held talks about extending the measures.

Seeing bright-coloured vegetables dotted across large stretches of land could make any farmer take pride in the hard work they put in to produce them.

Urology can be broadly defined as the specialty that manages patients with diseases of the male and female urinary tract, and of the male reproductive organs. It covers a wide range of common conditions including urinary tract infections, urinary tract stones, problems with bladder emptying, urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction. Urologists also treat patients with kidney, bladder, prostate, penile and testicular cancer. The last of these typically affects younger men than most cancers; prostate cancer, on the other hand, is most often seen in older patients.

India today successfully began the world’s biggest Covid-19 vaccination drive, inoculating 191,181 people with no case of post-vaccination hospitalisation reported so far.

A councilor-elect was killed by the rivals in Sirajganj municipality on tonight.

Awami League-nominated candidates bagged the mayor posts in four out of five municipalities, as per the election results published unofficially so far.